Daily Brief, March 31st 2010, Morning Edition
Michelle Obama is hosting a forum on workplace flexibility at the White House today How the White House currently handles letters to the President Wired takes a look at digital camera reliability
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Daily Brief, March 29th 2010, Afternoon Edition
Coffee (sorta) Watch: Folgers “Coffee” Co. will shutdown down their Kansas City “Roasting” plant in 2012. The plant opened in 1908 and operations will be consolidated at Folgers’ New Orleans plant where there is a more favorable tax environment. Curating the Internet (Video) A Spike Jonze movie about two robots living in a Los Angeles. The plot […]
Daily Brief, March 26th 2010, Weekend Edition
A list of failed and successful prison escapes by helicopter
Daily Brief, March 24th 2010, Morning Edition
No one cares about “Sexting” anymore Are we really making “internet friends”? I’m not sure what to make of this Google Japan video explaining how they anonymize portions of images used in Google Street View but I believe it is implying that Google can just doctor up any part of the images used as they wish.
Daily Brief, March 18th 2010, Afternoon Edition
Only in Seattle could you hope to find a biofueled mountain shuttle for skiers and snowboarders France does a “Carbon Footprint Assessment” for their new TGV line Slate examines the history of media outlets sowing fear into our perceptions of technology Verizon continues to piss off Droid owners. Ironically iPhone owners in the US will continue to whine […]
Daily Brief, March 15th 2010, Afternoon Edition
Is inflation protection the reason so many people are unemployed? The Guardian takes a look at design innovation in the public and private sectors Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium is the 2nd largest aquarium in the world. The Kuroshio Sea is the main tank (Video). The largest aquarium is the Georgia Aquarium, in Atlanta, Georgia and their main tank […]
Daily Brief, March 15th 2010, Morning Edition
An interview with Ryan Catbird of Catbird Records on packaging music, screen-printing, branding, etc. In my view, the biggest problem the Android mobile phone platform phases is customer confusion 25 years after the .com domain extension was launched. VeriSign’s CEO gives some PR spin. BBC gives a somewhat UK-centric look at the 10 busts “.com busts”.
Daily Brief, March 12th 2010, Weekend Edition
At look at the current state of air traffic control technology Car and Driver magazine’s tips for dealing with unintended acceleration (Potentially NSFW) Find other ChatRouletter’s near you How to Salt Food Reuters offers their journalists notes on report news using social media as well as sourcing material online Following up on a previous story: A photo gallery of the […]
Daily Brief, March 11th 2010, Morning Edition
Only five people in the United States can time-shift TV (“skip ads”) without the fear of litigation Hannah Dadds was the first female driver on London’s underground subway (the “Tube”) (Video) SWEATSHOP.tv is “a live video broadcast of drawing, sketching, and painting” and probably the greatest show that never aired on New York City community access television American […]
Daily Brief, March 10th 2010, Morning Edition
If you bicycle as much as I do, Google Maps’s new bicycling directions are awesome Maersk built six of the fastest cargo container ships ever but they can’t sell them and instead the ships are being used to host a children’s TV game show If you haven’t watched the new Tron movie trailer yet, here it is […]